All The
President’s Men is a history book about Watergate scandal that forced US
President Richard Nixon to resign his office in 1974. I read this book for my The Well Educated Mind Self-Project. There would be two chapter posts, this one
is for chapter 1-9, and there will be the second one for chapter 10-17. These
chapter posts are part of the first level of inquiry for the project, the
grammar-stage.
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| Two reporters of Washington Post doing reports of Watergate |
Chapter
1
Five men
were arrested for breaking-in the Democratic headquarter in Watergate. One of
the main suspects (Howard Hunt) is a White House consultant.
Chapter
2
There was large
sum of money in one of the Watergate suspects’ account which could be tracked to
President Nixon’s Committee for Re-election of The President (CRP) campaign
fund.
Chapter
3
A scheme of
money laundering in Mexico was found, and interviews of CRP staffs revealed
that the huge amount of money was used for Watergate’s tapping, and was
distributed by highest level persons in CRP. Investigation was being held by
the federal, but the final charges did not go as expected, the biggest evidence
hadn’t mentioned at all.
Chapter
4
There had
been some efforts to hide facts of Watergate tapping: documents were destroyed,
staffs were under pressure to stay away from press, staffs were persuaded to
give certain answers to FBI, and staffs possessed critical information were
promoted after Watergate. Washington Post had a valuable source with nickname "Deep Throat".
Chapter
5
John
Mitchell—Attorney General—was one of the controllers of the secret slush fund
which was used for financing illegal intelligence activities against
Democratic. There were four others related to it, one of them was from inside
the White House. A security personnel named Baldwin confessed about the
tapping.
Chapter
6
Nixon’s
presidential campaign also used young attorneys—“Mafia USC”—to do political
sabotage and espionage—“double spy”—to infiltrate the Democratic. There were
more than fifty agents of White House who were directed to ruin the opposition
and made the whole election collapsed.
Chapter
7
The “Mafia
USC” recruiter had a relation with Howard Hunt; he was paid by Nixon’s private
lawyer. Nixon’s campaign used provocateurs to sabotage Democratic convention,
while Nixon’s Assistant was mentioned as one of the sabotage’s contacts. The
Ministry of Justice had most of the evidences, but they have not done anything
yet to follow up the case.
Chapter
8
Nixon’s
Private Lawyer turned out to be one of five people who had the authority to
withdraw the “secret fund”. Nixon’s Campaign Director finally held a press
conference as a counter attack to Washington Post, but they still did not
respond to the accusation.
Chapter
9
It was
finally revealed that Nixon’s Assistant was the fifth person who controlled the
secret fund, the key person of Watergate. Overjoyed with this, Washington Post
made a mistake by publishing news which the reporters had misinterpreted their
source. The investigation was then stuck.
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